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<p>[QUOTE="Volodya, post: 2900554, member: 19615"]Well done, but the non-portrait Caesar set isn't quite complete. It's missing this rare coin, Crawford 452/5 and the related "large head" variety, Crawford 452/4:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]698566[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Also missing is the rare Crawford 482/1, assigned by Crawford and most others to</p><p>Caesar. (However, I'm inclined to follow Sear in attributing 482/1 to Octavian. I commented on the type in Gemini V, where the following example most recently appeared: "Because of the typical Caesarian types (Venus and trophy) and the legend CAESAR IMP, this extremely rare coin has traditionally been described as a military issue of Julius Caesar, struck perhaps in Spain. David Sear in Imperators has plausibly argued that the coin is better seen as an early military issue of Octavian, struck in conjunction with the Mutina War in the spring of 43 BC. Sear points out that Caesar, in his massive coinages in Gaul and the civil war theaters, uses the cognomen CAESAR alone, without the addition of the imperatorial title. The only exception is the rare Sicilian issue of Allienus, Crawford 457/1, which is in many ways atypical. In contrast, Octavian's first portrait coin, Crawford 490/1, does employ precisely the legend C CAESAR IMP. The present coin then fits nicely as Octavian's initial military issue, quickly replaced by one bearing his portrait.")</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://pro.coinarchives.com/a6702b34a0e1e6e27d395f75d412f7b2/img/gemini/005/image00783.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Sadly, the Gemini coin above (previously Lanz, before that Naville X, Petrowicz Collection in 1925) is <b>not </b>in my collection.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Volodya, post: 2900554, member: 19615"]Well done, but the non-portrait Caesar set isn't quite complete. It's missing this rare coin, Crawford 452/5 and the related "large head" variety, Crawford 452/4: [ATTACH=full]698566[/ATTACH] Also missing is the rare Crawford 482/1, assigned by Crawford and most others to Caesar. (However, I'm inclined to follow Sear in attributing 482/1 to Octavian. I commented on the type in Gemini V, where the following example most recently appeared: "Because of the typical Caesarian types (Venus and trophy) and the legend CAESAR IMP, this extremely rare coin has traditionally been described as a military issue of Julius Caesar, struck perhaps in Spain. David Sear in Imperators has plausibly argued that the coin is better seen as an early military issue of Octavian, struck in conjunction with the Mutina War in the spring of 43 BC. Sear points out that Caesar, in his massive coinages in Gaul and the civil war theaters, uses the cognomen CAESAR alone, without the addition of the imperatorial title. The only exception is the rare Sicilian issue of Allienus, Crawford 457/1, which is in many ways atypical. In contrast, Octavian's first portrait coin, Crawford 490/1, does employ precisely the legend C CAESAR IMP. The present coin then fits nicely as Octavian's initial military issue, quickly replaced by one bearing his portrait.") [IMG]https://pro.coinarchives.com/a6702b34a0e1e6e27d395f75d412f7b2/img/gemini/005/image00783.jpg[/IMG] Sadly, the Gemini coin above (previously Lanz, before that Naville X, Petrowicz Collection in 1925) is [B]not [/B]in my collection.[/QUOTE]
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